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Video reblogged from in the cloud
The Transformational Power of Education Technology
How edtech can level up your parents and students.
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Photo reblogged from Teachers. Classrooms. Worldwide.
U.S.: Low Standards for Teacher Training
The U.S. public education system is trying any number of techniques—from charter schools to presidential initiatives to oil-company-run teacher academies—to catch up to countries like Finland and South Korea in math and science education. But policymakers seem to be overlooking one simple solution: requiring math and science teachers to progress further up the educational ladder before they teach those subjects to kids.
(via U.S. science teachers are behind in training, degree requirements. - Slate Magazine)
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Photoset reblogged from Everyday Ramny
PHOTOS OF CLASSROOMS WITH STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD
All around the world, children are learning. They are learning all sorts of subjects and preparing for life and work in the world. Some children have access to excellent educational resources and possess all the tools they need for their early learning experiences. There are also students that do not have the access to a good education, and lack consistent teachers and infrastructure in their countries school system. Education varies all around the world, whether we realize it or not…
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Quote reblogged from teaching literacy.You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.Anaïs Nin (via aninsufferableknowitall)
(Source: thelandlockedmariner)
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Video reblogged from It's Okay To Be Smart
The Evolution of the Book from Rock to Silicon
The words of Douglas Adams (of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame) narrate this story about the evolution of books from tablets of stone to tableaus on paper to tablet computers. Of course, being a very smart guy, Douglas Adams presciently predicted the rise of digital storytelling a more than a decade before the first real e-reader.
Here’s Adams’ 1993 story animated by UK illustrator Gavin Edwards.
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R.I.P Carlos Fuentes, nunca disfrute de sus grandes novelas. Sin embargo “Aura”, “Los Días Enmascarados”, “El espejo enterrado” y “La Frontera de Cristal” son obras que he leído en más de una ocasión. -
Post reblogged from Guardian Music
Nada Surf’s plaintive, acoustic cover of perhaps New Order’s finest song is well worth sitting through the coffee advert for. CS
